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H. BREER.

APPARATUS FOR DESIGGATING FERTILIZERS. No. 303,914, I Patented Aug. 19, 1884.

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' UNrrED STATES Pnirnnr tries.

HENRY BREER, OF DE VVIT'T,

NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO CAROLINE H. BRRER,

or SAME PLACE.

APPARATUS FOR DESICCATING FERTlLlZERS.

GPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 303,914, dated August 19, 1884.

Application filed March 25, 1884.

To etZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BREER, of De lVitt, in the county of Onondaga, in the State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Desiceating Apparatus, of which the iollowing, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a full, clear,

and exact description.

This invention relates to lhe class of desro iecating apparatus designed for treating animal matter for fertilizers, and is designed as a further improvement on analogous devices covered by several Letters Patent of the United States already obtained by me.

The object of my present invention is to employ in a more effectual manner steamheat for desiceating the substance under treatment, all as hereinafter more fully explained, and specifically set forth in the claims.

In the annexed drawings, Figure I is a longitudinal section of my improved desiccating apparatus. Fig. II is a vertical transverse section on line X X Fig. I; and Fig. III is a rear end view of the apparatus.

Similar letters of reference indicate corre sponding parts.

A represents the furnace or fire-box of the apparatus. 0 is an elongated combustionchamber communicating with the aforesaid 3o furnace A, and having extended longitudinally through it a horizontal rotary cylinder, D, which is open at opposite ends, and communicates at one end with the aforesaid coinbustioirchaniber, and at the opposite end 5 with the smoke-stack E, said cylinder being journaled in suitable bearings supported on the end walls of the apparatus, the journals being in the form of hollow trunnions projecting from spiders S, to which the cylinder D is secured. Around the exterior of the cylinder, and connected steam-tight therewith, I arrange a steam-jacket, a, into which I ad niit steam by means of steam-pipe 0, extended through the hollow trunnion b, at one end of the cylinder, and intersecting radial pipes 0, inside of the cylinder, which radial pipes are extended through the shell of the cylinder, and communicate with the steam-jacket (No modell) a, a stop-cock, in, being applied to the steanr, pipe 0 for controlling the ingress of steam. Similar pipes, c and c, are connected to the opposite end of the cylinder, and extend through the hollow trunnion 1) thereof, to emit the water of condensation, said water being conducted to the ends of the latter radial pipe 0 by means of a spiral partition,

(I, which, in the rotation of the cylinder, scoops the water of condensation from the lower portion of the steam-jacket and carries it around the same to a proper elevation, to allow saidwater to enter and escape through the aforesaid pipes. The substance to be treated is introduced through a door, H, at the top of the front end of the'apparatus, as shown in Fig. I of the drawings, and in the rotation of the cylinder D the aforesaid substance is carried toward the opposite end of the cylinder, where a door, I, is provided for the discharge of the dried substance. In order to obtain control of the movement of the aforesaid substance through the cylinder D.

I connect to the inner surface thereof a series of scrapenplates, c, distributed through the length of the cylinder, as shown in Fig. I of the drawings, which plates are pivoted at one end and connected at the opposite end to a rod, f, which is extended to the end of the cylinder, so as to allow the attendant of the apparatus to shift the plates 0 in their position by means of the aforesaid rod f. By a greater or less angle of inclination of the plates 6 the substance under treatment is propelled with greater or less rapidity from end to end of the cylinder.

Having described my improvements, what I 5 claim is 1. In combination with the combustionchamber C and horizontal rotary cylinder D, 7 arranged to receive from it the products of combustion, the steam-jacket a, surrounding the cylinder, substantially as set forth and shown.

2. The rotary cylinder D, provided with the steam-jacheta, hollow trunnions b, and steampipesc c, communicating with the steam-jacket, as shown, in combination with the combustion-chamber O, inclosing said cylinder, my name and affixed my seal, in the presence and conimnnicating'with the interior thereof, of two attestingwltnesses, at Syracuse, in the 10 substantially as described and shown. county of Onondaga, in the State of N ewYork,

3. In combination with the rotary cylinder this 28th day of February, 1884. 5 D, steam-pipes 0 c, and steam-jacket a, the HENRY BREER. [L. s]

spiral partition (I, substantially as described \Vitnesses: and shown, for the purposes set forth. 0. H. DUELL,

In testimonywhereof I havehereunto signed \VM. 0. RAYMOND. 

